Loren Haarsma wrote:
> > Does anyone know the source of the phrase "Thinking God's thoughts after
> > Him?"
>
> It's commonly attributed to Kepler, but I don't know of any specific
> reference.
>
> > A recent example of "thinking God's thoughts after Him" is described in
> > today's Science section of the NY Times: "Experiments on Dense Matter
> > Evoke Big Bang" http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/16/science/16QUAR.html.
> > It seems that scientists working at Brookhaven National Laboratory have
> > now reproduced the same conditions that "existed a few millionths of a
> > second after the start of the Big Bang."
> >
> > I wonder whether there is a connection between this latest scientific
> > achievement and the events that took place so long ago in the Garden.
>
> I've always been taught that we would disobey God if we _failed_ to
> investigate His amazing creation scientifically.
>
> Numerous Christian theologians, philosophers, and educators have
> written at length about this idea. In the interest of time and
> brevity, I'll just mention some Bible texts to consider.
>
> Genesis 1:28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and
> increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of
> the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that
> moves on the ground."
>
> Proverbs 19:2 It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be
> hasty and miss the way.
>
> Matthew 25:14-30 (The parable of the talents).
The enterprise of "thinking God's thoughts after him" becomes a
problem when it is assumed that one can do this from nature without starting
from God's revelation in Christ. Cf. Paul Davies'
_The Mind of God_. That is why I continue to be such a Barthian killjoy about
all the happy remarks of ASAers about "evidence for God" from science,
"general revelation", "God's two books" &c. Once the camel of independent
natural theology gets its nose in the tent, you're in trouble.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
"Theologia naturalis delenda est!"
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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